This post is actually mainly a test for the google-syntax-highlighter WordPress plugin, but it also gives me a chance to share this small script.
EDIT: {This looks bland now, because I got rid of the aforementioned plugin. Looked great, but I don’t like that it’s all JavaScript (ends up showing the code unmodified for 2-3 seconds while the page loads). It needs to run when the page is generated server-side.}
Found a python one-liner a while back to serve the current directory, but needed the ability to specify what port to use (the one-liner used 8100). I added that, and came up with this. Just call it from any directory to serve the contents up in a quick-and-dirty HTTP server. It defaults to port 8100, or you can specify the port by doing servethis [PORT]
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import SimpleHTTPServer
import SocketServer
# minimal web server. serves files relative to the
# current directory.
PORT = 8100
if len(sys.argv) == 2:
PORT = int(sys.argv[1])
Handler = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler
httpd = SocketServer.TCPServer(("", PORT), Handler)
print "serving at port", PORT
httpd.serve_forever()
